WASHINGTON: More than a million people have been recovered so far from coronavirus while the number is surging past one million on Thursday.
Johns Hopkins University released the latest data on Thursday saying at least 1,014,524 people have recovered from the pneumonia illness that has infected 3,218,415 people and killed over 230,309 globally.
Europe is the worst hit continent with 137,714 deaths, while the United States has registered the most for one country with 62,906.
The US recorded 2,053 deaths on Thursday, after 2,502 deaths on Wednesday and 2,207 on Tuesday, according to the Baltimore-based university.
The coronavirus virus has infected at least 3.2 million people so far, with Russia´s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin becoming the latest high-profile figure to test positive as his country´s caseload surged past 100,000.
Meanwhile, European and US markets finished the day in negative territory, as a spate of figures confirmed fears about how the COVID-19 crisis is pulverizing global growth.
The latest jobless claims by another 3.84 million Americans translate into a jarring conclusion — roughly nine percent of the US population has filed for unemployment benefits in six weeks.
In the midwestern US state of Michigan, protesters — some of them armed — stormed the state capitol building, demanding that the Democratic governor remove strict lockdown rules, which they say hurt the economy and represent governmental overreach.
The depressing US jobs data compounded the tough message from European Central Bank Christine Lagarde.
“The euro area is facing an economic contraction of a magnitude and speed that are unprecedented in peacetime,” she warned.
ECB economists expect output in the 19-nation currency club to shrink by “five to 12 percent” this year, she added.
Eurostat figures showed the eurozone economy was estimated to have shrunk by 3.8 percent in the first quarter.
Germany, Europe´s biggest economy, “will experience the worst recession in the history of the federal republic” — founded in 1949 — Economy Minister Peter Altmaier warned, predicting it would shrink by a record 6.3 percent.
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